Development of China’s first space-borne aerosol-cloud high-spectral-resolution lidar: retrieval algorithm and airborne demonstration

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Table 2 Retrieval mean and STD of optical parameters from all the valid bins over Town, Ocean and Forest

Scene	Lidar	BSR(a.u.)	BSC(10^–4 × km⁻¹sr⁻¹)	EC(10^–2 × km⁻¹)	LR(sr)	N_profile
Town	A2P	1.60 ± 0.20	7.96 ± 2.89	2.85 ± 1.13	34.82 ± 6.07	194
Town	CALIOP	1.60 ± 0.34	8.44 ± 5.13	3.75 ± 2.27	44.35 ± 3.44	96
Ocean	A2P	1.56 ± 0.27	7.49 ± 3.70	2.54 ± 1.36	28.43 ± 6.501	384
Ocean	CALIOP	1.54 ± 0.30	8.03 ± 4.76	3.53 ± 2.09	44^a	24
Forest_Cloud	A2P	14.37 ± 15.40	148.12 ± 169.23	33.07 ± 41.11	22.29 ± 5.29	530
Forest_Cloud	CALIOP	14.97 ± 19.75	155.31 ± 220.12	55.62 ± 76.31	40.23 ± 7.02	58
Forest_Aerosol	A2P	1.68 ± 0.83	8.70 ± 9.39	3.07 ± 2.58	36.02 ± 5.22	530
Forest_Aerosol	CALIOP	1.54 ± 0.62	5.83 ± 6.09	2.84 ± 2.33	51.70 ± 5.44	58